Warm meal Poljoprivredna zadruga Brod, Moravice

Poljoprivredna zadruga Brod Moravice was an agricultural cooperative operating in the Gorski Kotar region of Croatia. Cooperative-issued meal tokens of this type functioned as internal scrip — entitling workers or members to a prepared meal rather than representing a cash equivalent. The distinction mattered legally and practically: these were not currency, which allowed small rural cooperatives to issue them without central bank authorization.

Brod na Kupi, the village at the heart of this cooperative's territory, was a modest timber and farming settlement. That a local zadruga was issuing its own meal vouchers points to a degree of economic self-sufficiency typical of Yugoslav cooperative infrastructure in the postwar decades.